Chlorine question

[cichlid2006]

i wouldent worry with chlorine unless you have a small tank or are doing a 40% or larger water change if it safe to drink its most likely safe for your fish to live in. chlorine evaporates much faster then water and if you let water sit in an open container for 24 houers your almost illiminating all of it

Wow, some craking advice there thumbs up for that one .

Always dechlorinate, no matter how little that way there is no guess work involved and no risk. All these guesses are putting your fish at risk. Chlorine is used to remove bacteria from the water we drink, any in your tank will kill the BB. It may not kill the lot but it will damage your bio filtering capacity, is it worth the risk to your fish for the sake of saving a few drops of dechlorinator??

Aside from it damaging your bacterial colonies it is also very damaging to the health of your fish. If I remember right the chlorine burns their gills, much like chlorine gas does to our lungs.

Speak to your water board and find out if they use plain chlorine or if they have adopted chloramine like most water companies in the developed world.

Chlorine will dissipate after 24hrs or so with aggitation of the water, such as with an air pump & stone. Chloramine does not, even after many weeks.

You need to break the chloramine bonds using a dechlorinator that can handle chloramine, they tell you in the bottle what they can neutralise. Seachem prime is one, tetra aquasafe is another.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

just because we can drink doesn't mean the fish can live

 

[nes999]

just because we can drink doesn't mean the fish can live

i agree we can choose to drink what water we seem fit. that cant just swim out of the toxic area.